Hell Hath No Fury

I don't care which part of the world you're from. The US, the UK, the UAE or any part of the world. Get this right, in any given country, there's that part of it which is underprivileged and mercilessly overridden by unforgiving poverty. I don't care if your president is Obama or Zuma, or if your prime minister is Thabane, there's a percentage of your proud wealthy country that starves.

There'll always without fail be places where roads are inaccessible and people live in dilapidated shacks and struggle their way through each day to make ends meet. Some are homeless, some go for days on end on empty stomachs and even well-off countries like the US still fail to provide care sufficient enough with their "shelters for the homeless" for everyone in dire need.

In Lesotho, as in most African countries, you won't get to meet tons of homeless people because we have it in our hearts as a nation to care. If one relative needs assistance, at least 80% of us is okay with the idea of an extended family. We have values that strengthen family bonds while in this so-called developed countries, it's a raging war of the survival of the fittest and one man for himself. One word: SELFISH.

And just because they throw money at every problem expecting solutions doesn't make them any better, as if they don't know this is a rotten world, why not take that money and start making the changes you want to see in the world? Why trust someone with that responsibility? In most cases, these donations in form of money never fulfil their intended purposes and only the powerful and those in charge benefit from this while the poor remain poorer and hungrier and more desperate. At the end, they resort to crime for survival.

I love this country, God knows I do(I'm not saying I wouldn't go live in Paris), I love it's mountains, the rivers, the falls, its picturesque captivating landscapes...and if you're its citizen, you know what I mean. I would disapprove if in every inch of Lesotho, everybody wore modern attire. Up in the mountains, seeing the men in the fields and plains herding their livestocks and cultivating the land, wearing blankets and mekorotlo(hats), while women take care of home and cook with fire and iron pots,when they all live in thatched-roof houses built of stone; this, is NOT poverty.

When there are parts of Lesotho where the main transport mode is horse riding, it is NOT poverty. All these things are what make our rich culture. The home-made beer and festivities, we are proud of it all. And if you come to Lesotho and see all these, then don't be mistaken, we are all proud of it! So don't go to your country claiming we are so underprivileged we can't even afford a better transport mode.

And for some unknown annoying reasons, most of all of you choose to post pictures that depict your so-called poor Lesotho all over the internet and I swear anybody who's never been here thinks Lesotho is all that. Mountains and rivers. Yes I'm mad.

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